Hello,
I don't know who might be up for a trip to London, but I would LOVE to go to this conference and would like some company! It's in a few weeks and sounds like a wonderful experience.
Check out this link for more information.
Maybe we can go there and get some ideas for our food campaign!
http://www.wen.org.uk/local_food/Reports/SCF_Invite09.pdf
Friday 13 February 2009
Wednesday 4 February 2009
My £2 a day diet challenge
Hello all,
Just to keep you informed, Mac and I have started our £2 a day challenge. The rules and our breakdown for every day can be found at my blog http://lessandlessandmore.blogspot.com/
So far we're on day 3, and it seems to be going well. I made cookies last night (6.5p each) out of half organic ingredients (well, the flour and butter were--and they made up a LOT of the dough!), have had an organic breakfast 2 out of the 3 days (today I had local bakery bread with organic jam) and mostly organic dinners, and we've still managed to stay under our £2 each.
Please share this with anyone you know who has been holding off on buying organic because they think it's too expensive. I'll be posting recipes, price breakdowns, and will hopefully be mentioning which ingredients are organic as I go. It's a month-long challenge, but I'm starting to think we'll be fine! No hunger pangs yet!
If you have kids or know someone with kids who might be up for trying this (I want to see if a family can do it), let me know. I'd be willing to help them do the initial weighing and pricing of things so that it's not such a chore.
Just to keep you informed, Mac and I have started our £2 a day challenge. The rules and our breakdown for every day can be found at my blog http://lessandlessandmore.blogspot.com/
So far we're on day 3, and it seems to be going well. I made cookies last night (6.5p each) out of half organic ingredients (well, the flour and butter were--and they made up a LOT of the dough!), have had an organic breakfast 2 out of the 3 days (today I had local bakery bread with organic jam) and mostly organic dinners, and we've still managed to stay under our £2 each.
Please share this with anyone you know who has been holding off on buying organic because they think it's too expensive. I'll be posting recipes, price breakdowns, and will hopefully be mentioning which ingredients are organic as I go. It's a month-long challenge, but I'm starting to think we'll be fine! No hunger pangs yet!
If you have kids or know someone with kids who might be up for trying this (I want to see if a family can do it), let me know. I'd be willing to help them do the initial weighing and pricing of things so that it's not such a chore.
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Food Campaign
Here are some ideas for the food campaign that we came up with at the meeting. The next step will be to pick some of these and flesh them out into actions, events, or campaigns. Your thoughts are not only appreciated, they are essential!!
Food Campaign
We had a think about what food events/issues we would like to cover during the food campaign, and ideas included:
- learning about permaculture
- focus on local food – Hampshire Fare
- food foraging lessons from an ethnobotanist
- urban gardening – home small space
- sharing an allotment/community urban gardens/garden shares
- WHY food is an environmental issue
- The WI have done a partnership with WRAP for Love Food, Hate Waste and have a workbook and report that groups can use to try to reduce their personal food waste available here or from http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/.
- Encouraging the City Council to include more food gardening space in their Open Spaces
- Environmental benefits of vegetarianism/veganism/eating less meat
- Making a cost per serving recipe book to encourage people who think they can't afford organic or local food to try it.
- How to reduce energy in cooking
Please add more ideas to this and then we can pick a few to start turning into action.
Monday 2 February 2009
February Challenge - Be more aware!
Okay,
This challenge is a little vague. The idea is to be more aware of where your food is coming from. Has it travelled a long way? Does it come from the kind of farm you want to support? Does it come from a government you approve of? Does it come from a place where they treat their workers well? You can try to tackle all or only some of these questions. It is completely up to you.
If you can, as Spring has suggested, keep a notebook of all the countries of origin of your food, that would be an amazing document. If that's beyond you in terms of free time, we'll all understand! Take on as much of this challenge as you want.
This was brought up by Anna, who staged a mini bit of activism at the supermarket with Israel produce being attacked by stickers showing bombs in shopping trolleys and little plastic soldiers. She has more stickers left if you want to be at one with the activist in you!
This challenge is a little vague. The idea is to be more aware of where your food is coming from. Has it travelled a long way? Does it come from the kind of farm you want to support? Does it come from a government you approve of? Does it come from a place where they treat their workers well? You can try to tackle all or only some of these questions. It is completely up to you.
If you can, as Spring has suggested, keep a notebook of all the countries of origin of your food, that would be an amazing document. If that's beyond you in terms of free time, we'll all understand! Take on as much of this challenge as you want.
This was brought up by Anna, who staged a mini bit of activism at the supermarket with Israel produce being attacked by stickers showing bombs in shopping trolleys and little plastic soldiers. She has more stickers left if you want to be at one with the activist in you!
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